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Dave on SSL on a Raspberry Pi
Installing an SSL certificate and enabling https was a faff, here are my notes. …
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Dave on Ka-52 “Alligator”
I came across this article, in business insider, and their No 1, most deadly helicopter gunship is the Ka-52 “Alligator”. I think the picture below/overleaf is dramatic, and I also think shows one in Red Army (or Air Force) livery.
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Dave on Anti-Brexit websites
I was considering the effectiveness of Brexit Spotlight and it was suggested I look at it’s pseudo-competitors. Here are my notes …
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Dave on The OBR
The Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) was founded by George Osborne as part of his shredding of George Brown’s reputation. He wanted and independence badge to put on the economic forecasts on which fiscal policy was based. He accused Brown of making it up. Anyway now we have the OBR, here are my notes and links …
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Dave on On (2) founding fathers
Various reading and musing has led me to the foundation of the United States, not the least, my studying of the history of Mexico. I wrote a little piece on the its founding, on my blog, interestingly called https://davelevy.info/subsidiarity-representation-and-human-rights/. I say interestingly, because the title has little to suggest it is about US governance and its constitution.
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Dave on Shaves as close as a blade
Because it is! Has disposable safety razor technology improved? I have always just bought what’s available from my supermarket but my local Tesco has become unreliable in what it sells. I bought a Gillette 3 the other day and it was jolly good. So what’s going on?
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Dave on Empire Windrush Scandal
The scandal, which broke in April 2018, saw the UK government apologise for deportation threats made to Commonwealth citizens’ children. Despite living and working in the UK for decades, many were told they were there illegally because of a lack of official paperwork.
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Dave on More about Mastodon
Mastodon is in the news again; huge numbers are joining after Musk bought twitter. Here are some notes on what it is, what’s the mystery, and how to join it. …
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Dave on Raspbian on Virtual Box
I turned off my Raspberry Pi a couple of weeks ago, I was concerned about its energy draw. FFS. 😲 Also the projects I planned had stalled but like the No 11 bus, another one has come along, So I decided to install a Raspberry Pi in my virtual box instance. Here’s how …
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Dave on Ubiquitous Messaging
Twitter has been bought by Elon Musk. What do we do now? Here are some notes …
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Dave on Israeli election system.
There’s a general election in Israel; famously it has a a fissiparous PR system. Here is a note on how it works as far as I can tell and been told.. …
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Dave on Derain
I can’t remember where I saw it, but I was impressed/taken by one of his pool of London pictures. I wonder where they are best seen? Here are my notes. …
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Dave on Port of London
I was looking up some stats on the Port of London, the UK’s biggest port beating Grimsby & Hull, but only just. This was to help me write some stuff on the FTCA and London. Here are my links and notes …
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Dave on TUC Congress 2022
This was postponed, due to the death of the Queen and reconvened in October. Here is the record of business and my unadorned notes …
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